Mozhgan Karimi is an architect, lecturer, and researcher whose work investigates how sustainable and environmentally responsive design can enhance human comfort and well-being while achieving energy efficiency.
Her research integrates energy and environmental performance, including performance-based analysis, low-carbon and circular design, alongside human-centred and behavioral insights and sustainable, contextual approaches.
She has a particular interest in combining data-driven environmental analysis with insights from human experience and environmental perception to develop design strategies that are socially and culturally meaningful and capable of achieving long-term resilience through low-carbon and resource-efficient solutions.
She has been teaching architectural courses since 2018 and currently serves as a lecturer at Payame Noor Central University in Shiraz, Iran. Alongside her academic role, she works as a senior architect and researcher at Razshahr Boom Negar Consulting Engineers.
Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as City, Territory and Architecture and Discover Sustainability, with several additional manuscripts under revision or under review in international journals.
Karimi earned her master’s degree in architectural engineering from Islamic Azad University, Qeshm Branch, where her thesis explored the integration of climate-responsive and context-sensitive architecture to foster social interaction.
